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Luke 4:25

Luke 4:25 is verse 25 of Luke chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

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King James Version

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

World English Bible

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

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Luke 4:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

24 Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

25 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Luke 10:21

At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Mark 7:26

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:27

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Mark 7:28

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

Mark 7:29

Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

Romans 9:15

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Ephesians 1:9

And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

1 Kings 18:1

After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

James 5:17

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

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